The documentary ‘Naza’ features interviews with Israeli military officers about their destruction strategy.
On Thursday, Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor premiered the documentary “Naza” at the Venice Film Festival, where they accused their country of committing systemic crimes in the Palestinian enclave.
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“I don’t know how many of you know this, but the killing of civilians in Gaza continues. Just this week, during this festival, a 7-year-old girl was killed with her father in their car. Israel bombed a school in Gaza. What we are showing is something that continues to happen and, for that reason, we feel the need to make that denial more difficult,” Abraham said.
The two directors, who were part of the team that filmed the Oscar-winning “No Other Land” (2024), premiered their latest work, “Naza,” in the Venice competition.
Their work was accepted into the film festival “in extremis,” one week before it began, and was met Thursday with great anticipation and applause.
The documentary features interviews conducted on rooftops in Tel Aviv with Israeli military officers, whose identities are concealed, to reveal the strategy behind the destruction of Gaza.
"This is a film about a system. It focuses on orders, policies, and patterns of operation, not deviations from them. The conclusion that we draw from the testimonies is clear: The mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a “tragic byproduct” of a war against Hamas,…
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“Naza,” the term used by Israeli commanders to refer to the “collateral victims” of their bombardments in Gaza, draws on testimonies used in reports in recent years by media outlets such as The Guardian, which produced the film.
Szor explained that although “many” of the statements are known, “it is different to hear the people who designed and operated those systems speaking on camera.”
“In this film, we speak with 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers to examine a system of killings, of mass killings, that is based on mass surveillance,” Abraham said.
He also recalled that evidence of Israel’s “crimes” “is there,” also documented by journalists on the ground, but asserted that hearing soldiers and military officers “can make it more difficult to deny” the facts.
Szor stressed that the ultimate goal is “to exert pressure on Israel so that this ends.” The documentary was filmed at night, while through the windows of residential buildings in Tel Aviv, the apparently peaceful lives of its residents can be seen.
“Our film is shot in darkness and, in some way, I think it is a reflection of the darkness in which we are all living. It is a film that, in my opinion, does not offer many reasons for hope,” the director said.
If there is an aspiration for a future “of light,” there must be “an acknowledgment” and “accountability” for the crimes that have been committed against the population of Gaza, he added.
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